Best Vitamin A Supplements 2026: Cost per Effective Dose
Top pick for Vitamin A: NOW Supplements Vitamin A (Fish Liver Oil) 10,000 IU, 100 Softgels — 10000IU per 1 softgel, None stated, $0.04/day.
Registry check · Vitamin A
Does anyone independently verify Vitamin A supplements?
We could not confirm a single one of these 6 products in any registry, and none of them claims otherwise. Not one brand here displays a certification mark, so on independent verification all 6 start level.
6 checked against all 5,317 US NSF, USP and Informed Sport listings, 2026-08-25. Full method and limitations.
What 4 Vitamin A labels show
Priced per day, these vitamin A products run $0.04 to $0.14 — a 3.5× gap between the cheapest and dearest vitamin A here, across 4 brands.
Servings here are close enough to compare directly, so the gap is a real one: NOW Foods at $0.04 buys the same thing as Country Life at $0.14.
All Vitamin A Supplements Compared
| Product | Brand | Dose / Serving | Cost / Day | Certification (as labelled) | Pick | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NOW Supplements Vitamin A (Fish Liver Oil) 10,000 IU, 100 Softgels | NOW Foods | 10000IU / 1 softgel | $0.04 | None stated | Buy | |
| Solgar Dry Vitamin A 1,500mcg (5,000 IU), 100 Tablets | Solgar | 5000IU / 1 tablet | $0.07 | None stated | Buy | |
| Carlson Vitamin A Solubilized, 10,000 IU (3,000mcg RAE), 100 Softgels | Carlson | 10000IU / 1 softgel | $0.10 | None stated | Buy | |
| Country Life Vitamin A 10,000 IU — 50% Beta-Carotene & 50% Retinyl Palmitate, 100 Tablets | Country Life | 10000IU / 1 tablet | $0.14 | None stated | Buy |
In-Depth Vitamin A Guides
Go deeper on vitamin A — by goal, by form, and what the evidence actually supports:
Our Picks
Lowest Cost: NOW Supplements Vitamin A (Fish Liver Oil) 10,000 IU, 100 Softgels
10000IU per 1 softgel. None stated. $0.04/day. 100 servings per container at $3.90.
NOW Supplements Vitamin A (Fish Liver Oil) 10,000 IU, 100 Softgels →
The shelf · Vitamin A
These Vitamin A servings are not comparable to each other
Solgar Dry Vitamin A 1,500mcg (5,000 IU), 100 Tablets states 1,500 IU a serving and NOW Foods Vitamin A (Fish Liver Oil) 25,000 IU, 250 Softgels states 25,000 IU — both occupy one row of the same price column. So Nutricost Vitamin A 25,000 IU, 500 Softgels showing 4¢ a day, the lowest here, may be reporting a smaller serving rather than a better price. Before comparing Nutricost Vitamin A 25,000 IU, 500 Softgels with Country Life Vitamin A 10,000 IU — 50% Beta-Carotene & 50% Retinyl Palmitate, 100 Tablets, check what each calls a serving.
Method: the 6 Vitamin A products above, compared on label facts — serving size, servings per container, form, price. Not a dosing recommendation.
The evidence · Vitamin A
What the published reviews of Vitamin A concluded
- Vitamin A supplementation for preventing morbidity and mortality in children from six months to five years of age. · The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2022
“This update identified no new eligible studies and the conclusions remain the same. VAS is associated with a clinically meaningful reduction in morbidity and mortality in children.”
- Vitamin A and Breast Cancer Survival: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. · Clinical breast cancer, 2018
“Our findings suggest limited evidence for the significantly inverse association between the prediagnosis dietary intake of β-carotene and OS among women with breast cancer. However, the intake of other vitamin A derivatives was not significantly associated with survival.”
- Inflammation and Vitamin A. · Food and nutrition bulletin, 2015
“In nutrition surveys or intervention studies to measure vitamin A status, workers should measure APP and correct retinol concentrations using the multiplication factors where inflammation is found.”
- Vitamin A supplementation to prevent mortality and short and long-term morbidity in very low birthweight infants. · The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2007
“Supplementing very low birthweight infants with vitamin A is associated with a reduction in death or oxygen requirement at one month of age and oxygen requirement among survivors at 36 weeks postmenstrual age, with this latter outcome being confined to infants with birthweight less than 1000 g.”
Method: PubMed searched in humans for systematic reviews and meta-analyses with Vitamin A in the title; these 4 of the 8 that qualified are shown with the authors’ own conclusion quoted rather than summarised. What it cannot tell you: whether Vitamin A will work for you — each of these reports an average across trials published 2007–2022, and null findings are shown here as readily as positive ones.
How these 4 Vitamin A products were ranked
Not one of these 4 vitamin A products could be confirmed in the NSF, USP or Informed Sport registries, so verification separates none of them and the ranking falls to cost per day at the labelled serving. Commission does not enter it: the rate is the same whichever vitamin A you buy. Full methodology.